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Neither people nor land should be wholly cultivated; the greater part should stay wild
Drawn from what Henry David Thoreau said
What Henry David Thoreau actually said
- Henry David Thoreau American philosopher and writer (1817 to 1862)
I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.
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↗Walking (1851-1862)gutenberg.org
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